
Celebrating Independent Bookshops – High Street Beacons of Hope by Alexia Wdowski
The Bookshop by the Sea is one example of the thriving independent bookshop scene in the UK, combining a vibrant online community fuelled by the explosion of BookTok, with the warmth of physical community spaces.

Aberystwyth Poetry Festival Voice Lessons from Poets
Poetry can very much still be seen as prose’s dreamy second-cousin, full of cloud-wandering and lyrical lake-gazing. It doesn’t relate much to this gritty business of living life amid an environmental-cost-of-living crisis.
Or does it?